SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses possible plot directions and future of Sons of Anarchy.

Sons Of Anarchy may be starting its final season this fall, but tales about the world shown in the FX drama are not over. “We are having serious conversations about our prequel,” said SOA creator Kurt Sutter to loud applause today at Comic-Con. “My sense is right now that I don’t know if it will be a full-on series or a mini-series.” While this is far from the first time the showrunner has talked about going back to the show’s roots, it had special significance Sunday in the massive Hall H for what is expected to be SOA’s last of many SDCC appearances.

“There’ll be no spinoffs,” added Sutter. “I think spinoffs work well on procedural dramas, which this clearly is not.” The SOA story will also continue in Bratva, the show’s first novelization. The upcoming book, whose cover art Sutter showed the audience, picks up after Season 4.

The often acerbic Sutter teared up when other show principals thanked him for creating the series and for the experience of working on it. “Sit the f*** down,” Sutter told the cast and the thousands in the hall when they gave him a standing ovation. “I got an image.”

“Hello, lovely people of Comic-Con,” said the absent Hunnam in a hilarious short video that mocked the actor’s fashion photo session. In it, Hunnam was being massaged, manicured and waited on by the other members of the biker gang in what looks like a luxury suite. “This is the seventh season of the show. For a show to stay on the air that long requires the massive support of our fans,” Hunnam said, before snapping at Coates, Boone Junior and Flanagan for not serving him appropriately.

The highest-rated series in FX’s history, SOA’s seventh season starts on Sept. 9 with an episode that lasts one hour and 45 minutes. It picks up in the aftermath of Humman’s Jax character breaking down after discovering his wife Tara and Sheriff Eli Roosevelt murdered in their house. Seeking vengeance, the SAMCRO leader doesn’t know that his mother Gemma, played by Sagal, was actually the one who killed Tara or that fellow crewmember Juice shot the sheriff.

After a review of last season’s events, fans were treated to a preview of Season 7 that was bookended by Jax brutally fighting a man in prison and carving a swastika on his stomach. It also showed Jemma raising his children, the remaining SAMCRO crew on a ride, the Jimmy Smits character estranged from Jemma and the graveside headstone of Tara. “Rather than being the reactor to chaos, (Jax) is the inciter of chaos,” said Sutter of Jax in the final season. “It’s like writing a brand new character.”

Not that the last SOA season is finished with production yet. “Much to the chagrin of my production team, I like to back up on my production schedule,’ said Sutter. “I can never tell what it is going to look like or how we are going to get there,” Sutter said, dodging a question about whether Hunnam’s character would make it to the end of the last season. The show is halfway through shooting the final season. Sutter said he is writing episode 7 and editing episode 4. “The writing this year is phenomenal,” said Flanagan. “This season is fantastic.”

Earlier in the day, Sutter had been teasing fans on Twitter about a “fun guest-star announcement” for the biker drama’s upcoming final season but that turned out to just be him messing with people. Regardless, SOA still has Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson joining the show in recurring roles for its closing cycle

12 Comments

Anonymous • on Jul 27, 2014 10:32 pm

Extremely disappointed in season 6 finale.

That is, I called the death that occurred [hey, no spoilers!] and by whose hand 2 seasons earlier, but the plot contrivances of that last episode to make the death happen were unforgivable. The show is usually pretty tightly written, but in order for the climax of season 6’s finale to happen, Tara had to stop being careful (something she’d been for the last 2 seasons), had to completely underestimate the MC, and had to not think for even 1 moment that they all might be wondering where she’s disappeared to. Then, beyond that, the rest of the episode hinged on Unser giving wrong information and also acting ffar more stupidly than he’s been since the first season, the cops not being concerned at the same level they had been, the MC not worrying about the escalating feud between 2 characters, and a few other issues I no longer recall.

It was just too forced…especially for something that I think everyone saw coming.

The show’s had some occasional hiccups story-wise, but these were egregious. The series has felt like a shorter story that’s been stretched out for a while, but within that, has otherwise held up pretty nicely. But the forced machinations of that final episode soured me on the whole show. I’m out

Anonymous • on Jul 28, 2014 5:27 am

You will be missed. Not.

ppony • on Jul 28, 2014 4:52 pm

You called it? Just like Palin “called it” that Russia would invade the Ukraine? It didn’t take a genius to do either.

Beverly, Marie, Sandy, Rhonda, Brenda. • on Jul 28, 2014 1:33 am

We are 5 older ladies who attend church together. After church every Sunday we sit around and talk about the last episode of SOA we watched. We all absolutely love and adore Charlie Hunnam. He is such a hunk and we are all disappointed this will be his last season coming up, but we all look forward to anythig he does in the future.

Anonymous • on Aug 19, 2014 6:49 pm

best troll ever…or…amazing

Anonymous • on Jul 28, 2014 2:09 am

Go SOA. Cant wait to watch this Sept.

BD • on Jul 28, 2014 2:46 pm

I just hope that the totally irredeemable character of Gemma gets her just rewards at the end, and it is at least as brutal as what she inflicted in that last episode. It should come at the hands of Jax. I also hope that being married to Katey Sagal won’t keep Sutter from killing her character off. However, if how he treated his own character is any indication, Gemma may be in for a very grisly demise.

blank • on Jul 31, 2014 3:11 pm

I dont think it was on called for … what gemma did must bite her back at the end and i hope the one to choose her sentence is jax!

Personally I feel Jax has to die. After all he is a criminal guilty of murderer and several other crimes. Punishable by death. Not at the hands of the justice system but the street justice that he has built his legacy. That being said I would not be terribly disappointed if he was the last man standing. He has been the rock that those whom come in contact with break themselves on. He stands for something lives by a primitive code where only the strong wind ruthless survive. Let him live so he is not just a memory to be embellished when we need a hero. Let him walk away from the destruction he caused with his boys and we all learn that being a father saved him….and us

Anonymous • on Aug 19, 2014 7:29 pm

WTF? You contradict yourself explicitly.

I think what you are saying is, love him or hate him, we need him.

Cheryl Moran • on Jul 30, 2014 1:00 pm

I can’t wait till Sept 9th. With Kurt Sutters’ fabulously innovative and creative
mind, the SOA season is so unpredictable. It has me hanging at the edge of my seat. With all the possible twists and turns that Sutter promises, we may all be in for a shock.
Adding Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson to the season has me totally
intrigued. My heart is palpitating as I think about it.
I’m so looking forward to more SOA. I will be extremely sad when the season comes to an end. Writing scripts like Sutters’ SOA doesn’t come around very often. Thank you Kurt for an outstanding series.
Sincerely, Cheryl M. from Tonawanda, NY.

Anonymous • on Aug 14, 2014 7:00 pm

I am really disappointed that season 7 is the last season. I have been excited since last season ended to see what is coming. Thanks Kurt for all the wonderful seasons, and I can’t wait for September 9 th